# 1965 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1965 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Secretary of State for Wales – Jim Griffiths
* Archbishop of Wales – Edwin Morris, Bishop of Monmouth
* Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Cynan

## Events

* May – Opening of Llandegfedd Reservoir by Newport Corporation.
* 17 May – Thirty-one miners are killed in a mining accident at the Cambrian Colliery, Clydach Vale, Rhondda.
* 24 May – The first drive-on car ferry service between Fishguard and Rosslare Harbour (Ireland) officially opens.
* 15 June – The Hughes-Parry Committee submits its report on the legal status of the Welsh language.
* 21 October – Official opening of Llyn Celyn reservoir.
* 17 December – A landslide on the main railway line at Bridgend kills a train driver and co-driver.
* unknown dates
** Foundation of Undeb y Cymraeg Byw ("Union of Living Welsh").
** Mount Stuart Primary School, Cardiff, appoints Betty Campbell, the first black female head teacher in Wales

## Arts and literature
### Awards

* National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Newtown, Montgomeryshire)
* National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – William David Williams
* National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Tom Parri Jones
* National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – Eigra Lewis Roberts

### New books
#### English language

* Peter Bryan George – Commander-1
* Julian Mitchell – The White Father

#### Welsh language

* Bedwyr Lewis Jones (ed.) – Blodeugerdd o'r Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg
* Gwilym Meredydd Jones – Dawns yr Ysgubau

### Music

* 12 December – The Beatles' last live U.K. tour concludes with two performances at the Capitol, Cardiff.
* Tom Jones releases the film theme, "What's New Pussycat?" as a single.
* Rockfield Studios (near Rockfield, Monmouthshire) becomes the world's first residential recording studio.

### Film

* Richard Burton stars in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, for which he would be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
* Glynis Johns stars in Mary Poppins.
* Tryweryn, the Story of a Valley (film made by Friars School, Bangor).

### Theatre

* 26 March – Harold Pinter's play The Homecoming has its world première at the New Theatre, Cardiff.

### Broadcasting

* February - BBC2 is received in South Wales for the first time, as a result of a new transmitter.
* date unknown - Arwel Hughes becomes Head of Music at BBC Wales.

#### Welsh-language television

* Dafydd Iwan begins appearing regularly on TWW's Y Dydd.

#### English-language television

* As I See It, presented by Gwyn Thomas

## Sport

* Rugby union – Wales win the Triple Crown for the first time in 13 years.
* BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Clive Rowlands

## Births

* 5 January – Vinnie Jones, footballer (in Watford, England)
* 22 February – Steve Speirs, born Steven Roberts, actor
* 2 March (in Bangor, County Down) – Lembit Öpik, politician
* 6 March – Allan Bateman, rugby player
* 1 April – Alexandra Shân "Tiggy" Legge-Bourke, royal nanny
* 9 April – Colin Pascoe, footballer
* April – Manon Antoniazzi, née Jenkins, Chief Executive and Clerk of the Senedd
* 3 May – Rob Brydon, comedian and actor
* 8 May – Andy Dibble, footballer
* 11 May – Jeremy Goss, footballer
* 16 May – Vincent Regan, actor
* 25 August – David Taylor, soccer player and manager
* 13 September – Andrew Williams, cricketer
* 16 October – Floyd Havard, British super-featherweight boxing champion
* 30 October – Michael Tremellen, cricketer
* 9 November – Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone singer
* date unknown – Patrick Jones, poet and author

## Deaths

* 7 January – Sarah Edwards, actress, 83
* 18 January – Ernest Evans, politician, 79
* 29 January – T. Harri Jones, poet and academic, 43 (suicide)
* 4 February
** Hugh Morriston Davies, thoracic surgeon, 85
** Llywelyn Williams, politician, 53
* 5 February – Sir David Brunt, meteorologist, 78
* 1 April – Sir John William Bowen, trade unionist and politician, 88
* 22 April – Glyn Stephens, Wales international rugby union captain, 73
* 3 May – Howard Spring, novelist, 76
* 29 May – Steve Morris, Wales international rugby player, 68
* 16 June – Dai Parker, Wales and British Lion rugby player, 60
* 17 July (in Scarborough) – Dan Lewis, footballer
* 18 August – Christmas Price Williams, politician, 83
* 24 August – Elvyn Bowen, cricketer, 58
* 30 August – Llew Edwards, boxer, 72
* 11 September – Trevor Preece, cricketer, 82
* 1 October – Gareth Hughes, actor, 71
* 9 October – Russell Taylor, Wales international rugby player, 50
* 16 October – Hywel Davies, radio broadcaster, television interviewer and writer, 46
* 22 October – William Williams, Victoria Cross recipient, 75
* 31 October – John Roberts, Wales international rugby player, 59
* 4 November – Ifor Williams, academic, 84
* 8 November – George Hall, politician, 83
* 23 November – Murray Humphreys, Chicago mobster of Welsh descent, 66
* 26 December – Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies, Victoria Cross recipient, 87
* 29 December – Claude Warner, cricketer, 83